Generic Company Place Holder Ashampoo PowerUp 3

This all-in-one system optimizer includes a slew of helpful
utilities to make your PC perform faster, including a Registry
Cleaner, bootup optimizer, overall system tuneup tools, and
features that customize how you access your network.

In addition to tuneup tools, there are also options for
customizing the way that Windows works. These include customizing
startup and shutdown, Windows logon, the Windows desktop; whether
to use animation effects in Windows Vista; and even options for
customizing Vista's dreaded User Account Control (UAC).

All that is to the good, but Ashampoo PowerUp 3 is pointed more
at power users than at less-experienced people looking to tune up
their systems. It doesn't include detailed advice and wizards--it
shows you the options, describes what they do, and let you take it
from there. A piece of software such as the identically priced TuneUp
Utilities 2009 does a better job of not just analyzing your
system and showing you what it finds, but also of making
recommendations, such as which programs to disable from automatic
startup.

However, if you're experienced enough, you may not need that
advice. So power users will certainly welcome this software, even
if it doesn't offer as much advice for those with a less technical
background.

--Preston Gralla

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